Weird page numbers

[Mike]

I've created documents in Word 2000 using a template and
attached them to email
messages to my client who reports the following problem:

"all the pages show '0 of 3', or '0 of 4' or something
similar. I
tried to delete the page numbering and redid it several
times with no
effect. I even tried different ways of inserting the page
numbers. I
noticed 2 other 'odd' things. One is that the page number
in the lower
left corner of the screen shows page 0 all the time. The
other thing I
noticed is that one time I was deleting each of the
characters in the
page number, and as I deleted them, the correct page
number would
flash on the screen, and then it would go back to page 0
again".

The page numbers are correctly displayed and printed on my
computer/printer.

Has anyone encountered this problem or have any ideas on
how I can try
to correct it?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/PageNumber0.htm

 

[Mike]

Hi,Suzanne
Thanks for the reply, but before I go down that road I'm
wondering if the fact that the page numbers display okay
when I open the documents that I created but are all "0"
of "N" when he opens them isn't the result of a different
problem....I'm using Word 2000 and he is using Word 2003.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yes, this is most likely something different, but I have no idea what. FWIW,
*do* you have any graphics anchored inside a table in the header?

 

[Mike]

Suzanne
I followed the instructions in the link you suggested and
removed the table in the header, retaining the graphics,
and it fixed my problem.
A thousand *Thanks* you for your help.....Mike

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If your layout is such that you *can* remove the table, then this is perhaps
the best solution, but it would suffice to move the graphic's anchor to the
(obligatory) text paragraph following the table.

 

[Mike]

I was given the template for the header and would not know
a graphics anchor if I saw it but I think I know what it
does.....Please explain what a *graphics anchor* is and
what it looks like and how I can find it or see where it
is.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm for a picture of
an object anchor (it looks like a ship's anchor). To display object anchors,
check the appropriate box on the View tab of Tools | Options. You'll see
that the anchor is currently beside the table, but you can drag it down to
be beside the paragraph mark below the table.

 

[Mike]

Suzanne.....Thanks for the link to the tutorial.....I
followed the instructions and the nonprint characters were
displayed, but there is no object anchor to be found
anywhere.
Mike

-----Original Message-----
See

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm for
a picture of

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you've made the object inline, then there won't be an anchor, but when it
is floating (wrapped), there should be an anchor.